On Tuesday, 02/17/2015 at 04:24 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > Since z/VM is one of the few operating systems that can actually access the DVD > drive in the HMC, why are you trying to use FTP? Seems like going out of the > way to find trouble.
The reality is that few people put an HMC out where you can easily get to it. I.e. in your home or remote work location. So booting from an FTP server is a nice way to get around that problem. To the host OS it looks like the DVD drive, but the SE is using FTP behind the scenes. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
